I was once asked: what are three things you can do
in a book that you can’t do in a movie or TV series? An interesting
question… a. because why three? Why not 5 or 7 or 1? And b. because
there actually are three main things you can do in a novel you can’t do
in a movie or TV series. How did my interviewer know the exact number to
ask? Anyway, here are my answers.

First, you don’t have to worry about a budget. At
all. If you want to write that the main character drives a motorcycle
through the biggest earthquake ever to strike Los Angeles, have at it.
If you want to have characters jumping from Russia to Prague to London
to Washington DC to LA, no one is going to stop you. If you want
five-hundred assassins attacking the Olympic Opening Ceremonies … all
you have to do is put it down on paper. Of course, you can’t do that in a
movie script or you’ll give the President of Production at the studio a
heart attack. Unless you have Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp in the movie
together, then you can do anything.